It is left to be the surprise of the Franco-British summit on Friday, at least for the military aspect of the game: the French Army could pay twenty VBCIs, the latest infantry armored Nexter has its counterpart in the United Kingdom, according to our information.It would be for the troops of his gracious majesty to familiarize themselves with equipment which, they say, has not left indifferent during his trips to Afghanistan or Mali.Uh.
There five years, London has launched a great competition to renew its fleet of armored infantry transport. Piranha 5 U.S. General Dynmics had emerged victorious. The VBCIs tried his luck, but caught by the level of protection in particular. The program was canceled since, and armored Nexter has improved.
Paying twenty VBCIs (initially focused on discussions about sixty copies), Paris is dated in the event that the British revive an acquisition program, 2017 whichever discussed.Nexter is ensured without signing a contract obviously, because across the Channel, nothing gets done without a competitive basis.
If confirmed Friday the loan VBCIs have a significant symbolic meaning to the extent that the French test - for an acquisition - the Watchkeeper tactical UAV English. It would be a (small) step towards interoperability of the two armies, one of the objectives of the Treaty of Lancaster House, which provides the establishment of a joint expeditionary force by 2016.
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The U.S. Navy plans to take the Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System-Demonstrator (UCAS-D) aircraft out to sea onboard an aircraft carrier this summer to test how well it operates together with manned aircraft around the ship and on the flight deck.Did you get the full implications of the Admiral's statement?
“We also plan later this summer—later this year—to do dedicated blending and what we call cooperative operations of manned carrier aircraft and the X-47B,” Rear Adm. Mat Winter, Naval Air Systems Command’s program executive officer for unmanned aviation, told USNI News during a Jan. 30 interview in Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
During the two previous X-47B at-sea periods onboard USS George HW Bush (CVN-77) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in 2013, while the unmanned demonstrator had a Boeing F/A-18 chase aircraft, the two types did not operate together on the carrier flight deck. This time around the manned F/A-18 and X-47B will operate from the carrier together cooperatively.
In response to the policy that emphasizes remote islands and defense of the East China Sea, the response to large-scale disasters such as the Nankai Trough earthquake in the new National Defense Program Guidelines adopted by the Cabinet in December last year has been shown, the Ministry of Defense, aviation and transportation capacity I introduced into the Maritime Self-Defense Force amphibious assault ship with excellent operational capability. By 2018, the final year medium-term defense buildup plan to be based on the Charter, established the equipment procurement goal of 5 years (medium-term proof), consider the equipment and functions required. After that, I embody the implementation plan.I have to admit that I'm shocked.
In the medium-proof, clearly "on the study, to obtain conclusions about the existence of multi-functional ship" with the aim to quickly deploy the Self-Defense Forces troops in the remote island defense. You wrote "The rapid transport of troops sufficient scale, completeness initial response to Expand" and also in response to the Nankai Trough earthquake.
The Federal Reserve's decision to keep trimming its economic stimulus drew fire on Friday as India's central bank chief said Americans should be more attuned to the global impact of their policies, and the IMF called for vigilance given strains in financial markets.Read the entire article but let me be clear.
The push-back came on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's last day on the job and two days after the U.S. central bank reduced the pace of its huge asset purchase program. The Fed made the move on Wednesday despite a bruising selloff in emerging markets that was prompted in part by the prospect of less U.S. monetary support.
With the turmoil in currencies and stocks spreading into more emerging markets on Friday, Fed officials, addressing the rout for the first time, offered no hint the sell-off would influence their policy stance unless the U.S. economy were threatened.
But in Mumbai, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said the United States "should worry about the effects of its policies on the rest of the world."
The Army’s inability to deliver on a new armored fighting vehicle may also reflect a bigger problem: its ever-changing concept of future land warfare. The Army has radically changed its views on land warfare at least three times over the past decade. Instability of strategic thought doesn’t provide a secure basis on which to build a force structure or define the requirements for a new armored fighting vehicle.Changing theories of warfare?
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| A U.S. Customs and Border Protection UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter takes off as an F-16C Fighting Falcon from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing is seen parked in the background on Jan. 28 at Atlantic City Air National Guard base, N.J. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection spent the day briefing the media on the role they will play as part of the total force effort for security at Super Bowl XLVIII. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released) |
the 28th, it was found that it has embarked on the development of corresponding documentation at the time of the Air Self-Defense Force is an airspace violation to foreign aircraft. Development of the manual for the first time.I have in mind the information collector fighters and China to repeat the airspace access and overflight in the air of the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture) nearby. Manual is focused on increasing the effectiveness of forced landing, review of the use of weapons authority also become an urgent issue.Google translate doesn't do a very good job but it appears that they're going to force planes to land and hand the crew/passengers over to police.
In response to the December two years ago, propeller-driven aircraft of the China State Oceanic Administration has overflight in the air around the Senkaku, ASDF went into the development process of the manual.
Japan Coast Guard to address the territorial sea intrusion, but to deal with the overflight It 's ASDF fighter. However, the authority of the pilot is limited to forced landing instructions and warning shots. Certain that 1987, we fired warning shots in the Soviet Union military aircraft is ASDF, but there is no case that was a forced landing.
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“We’ve done the homework now. It’s taken three years of a lot of rigorous analysis to figure out the high water speed business,” Amos said at the RAND event. (RAND is closely linked to the Army and the Air Force, and Amos is the first Marine Commandant to visit that he or anyone else I talked to can remember). “You can build a high-water-speed vehicle and you can make it affordable — yes, I’m convinced of it — but the issue is the trade-offs in the capabilities inside that vehicle.”Read the entire article, but a quick decode....a transformer type ACV is going to cost too much, and although we were real close to making it work last time, we're broke because the F-35 is raping us.
Within the limits of current technology and budgets, it seems, making an affordable troop transport that can skim across the water at high speeds requires too many compromises to its capabilities as a combat vehicle once on land. And while Marines come from the sea,they fight on the land.
“This vehicle will live predominantly, probably 99 percent of its time, ashore,” Amos said. “In Iraq we had our amphibious tractors ashore; we had hundreds of them ashore,” for years.
In a full-page discussion of durability testing and cracking, Gilmore disclosed an incident in late September when a bulkhead "severed." He said "analysis and corrective actions" were continuing.What should F-35 supporters be saying?
Aircraft based in Florida, Arizona, California and Nevada for pilot training missions continue "to be immature" and rely "heavily on contractor support and workarounds unacceptable in combat operations," Gilmore wrote.
Reliability measures "are all below" target goals for the current stage of development, he said.
The aircraft's weight stabilized last year, with little margin for growth without exceeding contractually binding limits that would jeopardize meeting combat requirements, Gilmore said.
Below are the threshold ULCV general requirements providing enhanced mobility for IBCT Soldiers.Read the entire posting here.
a. Payload. Vehicle must carry Infantry Squad (9 Soldiers) with equipment (3200 lbs).
b. Protection. Base level of protection is provided by high mobility to avoid enemy contact and Soldier Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) (since the vehicle supports dismounted Soldiers).
c. Survivability. The ULCV (at GVW) shall provide a crashworthy vehicle structure capable of maintaining structural integrity in a rollover; quantified as a crush resistant roof structure or rollover bars capable of supporting 100% of its own GVW after a dynamically applied impact load.
d. Mobility.
a) Provide mobility with 10% on primary roads, 10% on secondary roads, 75% cross-country and trails, and 5% in urban, rubble environment.
b) Perform in Terrain level III (ridges/summits)
c) Routinely tasked to hold position on cross-country and trail conditions.
e. Lethality. Provide threshold capability to host crew served weapons assigned to an IBCT Infantry squad. Objective is to incorporate a medium caliber weapon into squad operations.
f. Transportability.
a) Internally transportable by CH-47 (in combat configuration under High/Hot conditions).
b) Sling load transportable by UH-60 (in combat configuration under High/Hot conditions).
c) Air drop from C130 on 463L pallet (in combat configuration).
d) Air drop from C17 dual row 463L pallet (in combat configuration).
g. Sustainability. Maintain high operational readiness rates through rugged construction and modular component replacement under field conditions.
h. Protection. Vehicle will provide FMVSS compliant restraints to Soldiers riding inside the vehicle and storage capability for individual equipment and squad equipment.
i. Range. 250-300 mile range on internal fuel.
j. No add-on communication equipment requirement.
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| An F-35C test aircraft successfully catches a wire during testing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., in December 2013. |
Lockheed and the Joint Strike Fighter program office ultimately traced the problem back to the shape of the hook and a faulty wire dynamics model supplied by the Naval Air Systems Command. The solution was to reshape the hook point and adjust the system’s hold-down damper, which helps prevent the hook from bouncing around upon touchdown.NAVAIR isn't that sloppy. Meanwhile check this out from the X-47 program which also experienced a faulty tailhook...
The team at FRCSW did not hesitate when asked to redesign this instrumental X-47B component. Within a few weeks of receiving the initial request from the UCAS team, the FRC signed a formal work order July 10, anticipating theThe X-47 experienced a similar issue and the problem was solved in a couple of months.
manufacturing and shipping process would take up to one month.
The UCAS and FRC teams worked together to overcome a series of complications to ensure the hook points were completed as quickly as possible. For example, machining the first steel part took longer than expected. As a result, the FRC made an investment in a more efficient machine to decrease cycle times.
In less than two months, despite the design challenges, the UCAS team received the completed parts from FRCSW in early August, avoiding costly delays and allowing the team to proceed with aircraft testing. Since then, the X-47B successfully engaged the arresting gear with the redesigned hook point during three separate roll-in arrestment tests.
The floating BMP-3F, also known the “naval option”, is designed for marine units, as well as border and coastal defense troops, that would use the vehicle for fighting in the coastal zone, on the coast, and in amphibious assaults. Its arsenal has a unique set of weapons, including a 100-mm gun, 30 mm gun, guided missiles, and a machine gun.Read the entire story by following the link at the top of the blurb. Notice that another nation is fielding a credible Amphibious Combat Vehicle.
The combat vehicle has a three-person crew and can transport seven people.
The vehicle’s design allows it to act like a boat in waves at least three points at a speed of ten kilometers per hour for seven hours while firing in waves of up to two points. It can begin driving again in waves of less than three points, climbing out of the water onto land on its own.
In addition, the BMP-3F can tow supplies for use in a sea raid.
